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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
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git clone https://github.com/RyanCavanaugh/dt-mergebot.git
npm install
Ask Ryan for the bot's auth token (TypeScript team members: Look in the team OneNote). Don't run the bot under your own auth token as this will generate a bunch of spam from duplicate comments.
set AUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
npm run wet
Changing the rules? Run this command to compile.
npm run build
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dt-mergebot
We found that dt-mergebot demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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